So I finally watched what might be the actual last episode of x files, from the newest one. Since it's apparently the 25th anniversary of it starting.

Yeah this shoulda just ended with the second movie probably.

It was garbage, an annoying kid that is...something, alien hybrid that the smoking man implanted into scully. Because contrails and joel mchale as alex jones exposing a conspiracy (but not aliens taking over, the aliens gave up cause climate change and now the conspiracy is to go into space after killing the planet? Or something? This shit was convoluted enough when it was still hybrids and the black oil.)

And then they just had a bunch of "see its contemporary references" with trump or fbi jokes or fake news the whole while.

Mulder got to finally just shoot the Smoking man repeatedly,,but he didn't even ominously smoke or reach for a morley before just getting wasted..that would have been way better. And then hugged Scully who said she was preggo with their real kid.

I just wanna ignore those last two """seasons""" they had, and focus on how cool and wacky that was to watch growing up. It was like the absolute reverse of Twin Peaks S3.

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But wait, now that I've griped a lot about the new x files seasons I wanna talk about something I liked.

I was okay with the other one I missed. Which was sorta Assistant Director Skinner's origin story back in Vietnam seeing the effects of some mk ultra shit gone haywire, and it ties into "it never stopped" and gives some backstory about his character and fleshed out his whole dynamic with mulder and scully and why he was frequently willing to go to bat for them.

Particularly because that was sort of the ending for his character...probably, and it was a really nice "Aww, they're all best friends forever because (backstory)."

Like, maybe it's because they've been marathoning all of these the past week. But I think that was a well developed character arc, even if they didn't at first intend it...cause a lot of this show I think the writers were playing by ear...the whole going from bureaucratic "you're off the case" type to a conflicted person torn between duty to what turned out to be something darker than they believed in and their morals/values. Interesting narrative arc.

Like in his end monologue Mulder and Scully mention an accusation they held him back from career advancement, and apologize. And he essentially goes "No, thank you for your ardent fight against conspiracies, you sort of proved that what I believed in when I joined the army or the FBI is correct and that there are good people and things worth saving."

edit: Although this all ties into my hatred of the last episode and how I think they totally screwed up the antagonists. In the original series...and not this pseudo-reboot crap...the syndicate was malevolent and power hungry but at least the cigarette smoking man similarly had a character arc aside from "mwahaha power for powers sake" and was, at least in their mind, thinking they were saving humanity from extinction. Just through really horrible methods.

This is what's called writing interesting, fleshed out characters. Which somewhere along the way the showrunner and some of the writers forgot how to do. Maybe they needed Vince Gilligan to come back and help, but he's off doing stuff like breaking bad and better call saul...which have those in spades.

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To be fair, you have to have a high IQ to understand the depth of a show that has one basic joke and then changed its writing staff because social media got upset at the network. You see, without a fundamental grasp of "rick and morty jumped the shark and, really, was basically just what if back to the future involved doc brown being an alcoholic because it never went beyond that", without a vague awareness of the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics or dimly remembering nihilism from a philosophy class, you can't understand the humor of discontinued fast food dipping sauce.

Everybody's seen that meme, right, about those fans of rick and morty

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Yeah they weren't kidding when they said "based on historical events"/stuff J. Allen Hynek said, cause already we've got some ominous little girls voice reading a numbers station and implications of brainwashing.

When I saw Harley Peyton was an executive producer I sorta went "Oh okay, sure". Because he was a writer/producer on I think season 2 of twin peaks and more recently channel zero. I like both those things, although twin peaks wasn't mostly him obviously. And so far this seemed okay.

The incident depicted in the first episode renamed the guy supposedly involved to an author of ufo books, so it looks like they're sorta throwing in a bunch of winking nods maybe. That's cute, I guess.

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